I remember it well. Ten years ago this week I was sick. Not just sick, but sick sick. The phone rang as we were sitting down to eat dinner, much as I didn’t feel like eating. It was the doctor. Can I come along to the office? Now? With my wife? I guess I can. […]
And there’s no doubt about it I really, really wanna shout it now Singing, I’m not religious anymore, whoa yea And there’s no doubt about it I really, really wanna shout it now Singin, I’m not religious I just love the Lord So sang Scott Wesley Brown back in 1977, in his song, I’m Not […]
Australian apologists for the Chinese regime should hang their heads in shame, with further proof that China is crushing religious freedom with glee and breathtaking arrogance. Just this week it has been revealed that churches throughout China have been forced to remove religious iconography, which are then replaced by, er, religious iconography, namely the current […]
It’s the little moments that make the Christmas season so special This is the latest Christmas advert for Bonds. The picture isn’t showing you what the little things actually are, but I assure you it’s the Bonds undies that are probably one size too small for both these muscular chaps. Cue outrage. And I kinda […]
“You’re not one of those evangelicals are you?” I’d just settled into the plane for the five hour flight back home across this great brown land called Australia, and I was tired. The Friday night flight from Sydney to Perth is invariably late taking off (a thunderstorm this time? Nice move, didn’t see that one!), […]
Chick-fil-A, the famed chicken fast food franchise, has just announced that it will now open Sundays. CEO Dan T Cathy declared this past week that the shifts in consumer expectations have resulted in a careful decision by the company to open seven days per week, starting from January 2020. In a press release today, Cathy […]
I have appreciated the Netflix series, The Good Place (the earlier seasons are better). Here at Third Space, my colleague David Robertson and I discuss the show, it’s views of heaven and hell, why God is strangely absent, and what it says about right and wrong. Have a watch of The Good Place, if […]
Speaking as a cynical, grumpy ex-Gothic X-Generation boy who all the other generations despise, let me say this: If you’re a Christian, it’s not ok to say “Ok Boomer” That’s a dismissive and arrogant thing to say. And Boomers? It’s not ok to razz out on Millennials, as snowflakes or whatever. For what it’s worth […]
“Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.” Haggai 1:10-11 Have you ever “done an Izzy?” Have […]
My twin brother and I were recently interviewed by The Centre for Public Christianity He’s an atheist. I am not! He is an academic. I am a pastor. I believe Jesus rose from the dead. He doesn’t. I loved this Life and Faith podcast interview because it gave us a chance to talk through some things […]
